Certainly not. Although I would always recommend retina over non-retina for reading, there's nothing to worry about since the display is really great. If there are hereditary eye diseases in your family, you should avoid eye strain anyway, no matter what kind of screen you are using.

While I agree with you the iPad is a good e reader, I would like to add that the matter isn't really retina or not-retina. And screen dimensions aren't the real problem to read a book too.
E-ink displays sports similar (or even smaller) dimensions, lower resolution but they strain your eyes even less than a retina display.

Thank you for your answer everybody. To be honest I was afraid about thie but you're reasurring me

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what none of these goofs will tell you is that they're reading these forums completely zoomed in because they've shot their eyes ipad reading!

obviously i'm kidding - but if you are primarily focussed on reading, i'd get an e-reader like a kindle. you can get the last gen kindles for less than $100 easily - probably way under if you watch CL and ebay. so you could always get both...

i read a lot - wouldn't want to do it on an ipad so i love my Kindle. but no - i don't think you'd hurt your eyes. just take breaks, make sure you're blinking etc.

obviously i'm kidding - but if you are primarily focussed on reading, i'd get an e-reader like a kindle. you can get the last gen kindles for less than $100 easily - probably way under if you watch CL and ebay. so you could always get both...

i read a lot - wouldn't want to do it on an ipad so i love my Kindle. but no - i don't think you'd hurt your eyes. just take breaks, make sure you're blinking etc.

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See, I feel the exact opposite. Reading on the Kindle isn't comfortable to me. The contrast ratio isn't high enough and browsing around in a book is a bear with how slow the interface is. The mini is the perfect reading device to me.

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